I wish I cared that she used drugs when she was pregnant, but her daughter seems to have turned out all right. I wish I cared about whatever flaky thing she probably tweeted while I was writing this, or what religion she’s into this week.

But if you believe he “really wrote” the songs on Hole’s (also immortal) breakthrough album, you’re delusional.

Not even a man as un-masculine as Cobain could’ve written “Jennifer’s Body” or “Doll Parts.” Those are girl songs.

I still listen to Live Through This about once a week.

Recently, I gave Nobody’s Daughter another shot and now have it in regular rotation.

The album’s obvious references to stuff she and I both grew up listening to – I detect hints of America’s “Ventura Highway” and “Sister Golden Hair” — make it the perfect “meta” Gen-X record, actually.

I have never thought of myself or my siblings (born between 61 and 66) as "Boomers" at all.

After 1955 the Postwar baby boom was over for the most part. Culturally, people born from 55 to 65 were more likely to be the neglected children of teenaged hippies (the actual baby boomers) who were busy finding themselves, exploring "free love", playing around with the psychedelic drug culture, and attending "happenings" like Woodstock and Altamont … debauchery which could last for days at a time.

All the while the toddler children of those teen moms and dads (us) were cast off to grandparents, aunts and uncles.

This unnamed decade of kids (pre-X- ers?) rejected Rock and Disco for the most part by the time they reached high school age and, starting in the early 70s, adopted Punk rock, Metal, New Wave, Grunge and eventually Industrial dance music. Music stylings which no other generation admits to liking, but music that somehow appears in nearly every modern movie soundtrack.

It is this (my) unnamed generation that remembers the “Disco Demolition” at Comiskey Park with such great fondness. Interestingly the Disco Demolition kids were then was criticized and marginalized using similar terms to those used to criticize the Tea Party today.

Sorry you had a troubled childhood, but the oldest 'Boomers, (b. 1946) were 9 in ''55 and 19 in '65, so there might have been a few births to teenagers in there, but not many. In those days, it was REALLY hard to get a girl under 18 to have sex with you because you and she were terrified of pregnancy and it was very hard for her to get pills until she was over 18 and out of the house.

I know how much everyone seems to like the myth but of the 75 or 80 million people born between '46 and '64, only a couple hundred thousand went to "happenings" like Woodstock or Altamont.

I don't know what my bio-daughter (b. 1971) and her husband listen to. He's a real movie and comic fan so he's pretty far into modern popular culture but I don't think she is very much. They live a pretty affluent lifestyle in Seattle so they're a little groovy for my tastes; probably voted for Comrade Obama, but she's been away from my good influences for twenty-odd years and his parents are Democrats.

All that said, while they're products of 'Boomers (b. 1949 and 1951 in the case of my daughter's parents) and in my and her mother's case pretty adventurous 'Boomers, they're both right out of Ozzie and Harriet and The Donna Reid Show; they're almost painfully straight! The only other couple I know well about my age and who have kids about the same age, a little younger but not much, have had the same experience. They, like Wife v1.0 and I, were pretty "adventurous" in the '60s and early '70s but straightened up enough to become pretty successful by the '80s and by the time the kids were in their teens and young adulthood in the late '80s and the '90s were absolute straight arrows, pretty successful, and quite affluent. The kids all turned out to be like we were in the '50s and early '60s before the World went wild in the late '60s and early '70s.

My own observation of X-er popular culture is that they tried very, very hard to be as bad and edgy as their '60s forebears but the bar was just too high. I actually can't think of much of the popular culture from the late '80s, '90s, or even early '00s I want to see, hear, or do again. Welll, there were some women from those times ...

What's abnormal about a guy setting himself up as a one-man kiddie porn detective agency only he and his credit card company knows about?

I myself recently set up an organization called the National Geographic Society, dedicated to the amateur sleuthing of the world's natural wonders. Tomorrow I'm climbing into a tree in my back yard to explore the multi-layered world of the canopy culture, or whatever it's called.

I'm planning on bringing back samples of bark, caterpillars and spiders and putting them in my fridge. Then I might call someone.